What makes you a ‘hero’ for nature? Socio-psychological profiling of leaders committed to nature and biodiversity protection across seven EU countries

Scopelliti, Massimiliano; Molinario, Erica; Bonaiuto, Flavia; Bonnes, Mirilia; Cicero, Lavinia; Dominicis, Stefano De; Fornara, Ferdinando; Admiraal, Jeroen; Beringer, Almut; Dedeurwaerdere, Tom; Groot, Wouter de; Hiedanpää, Juha; Knights, Paul; Knippenberg, L.W.J.; Horvat, Katarina Polajnar; Popa, Florin; Porras-Gomez, Carmen; Smrekar, Aleš; Soethe, Nathalie; Pol, José Luis Vivero; Born, Riyan van den; Bonaiuto, Marino

doi:10.1080/09640568.2017.1421526

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“…As expected, EID scores are strongly correlated with environmental concern, values, behavior, and behavioral intention (Clayton, 2003;Matsuba et al, 2012;Olivos & Aragonés, 2011;Scopelliti et al, 2018;Tam, 2013b;Watson, Hegtvedt, Johnson, Parris, & Subramanyam, 2017). Of particular note for the present paper, Kiesling and Manning (2010) found that EID was positively correlated with several scales related to gardening, including pro-environmental gardening behavior, engagement with natural processes, and an overall sense of gardening identity.…”

Section: Measurement Of Environmental Identitysupporting

confidence: 71%

“…The principal components analysis has typically found only a single dominant factor, though occasionally a more complex structure emerges; for example, Fritsche and Häfner (2012) found two factors among German students, one interpreted as reflecting contact with nature and one as reflecting self-definition; Olivos and Aragonés (2011) identified four factors, including self-definition, environmental enjoyment, environmental appreciation, and environmentalism. In known-groups comparisons, Clayton (2003) found significant differences between environmental studies students and a comparison group of students in the U.S.; Matsuba et al (2012) found that environmentalists scored significantly higher on EID than did a comparison group in Canada; while Scopelliti et al (2018), in a cross-national study, found that European leaders who were distinguished by their actions for biodiversity scored higher on environmental identity than did similarly-situated individuals who were not known for such actions.…”

Section: What Is Environmental Identity?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Identity in Russia: Validation and Relationship to the Concern for People and Plants

Clayton¹,

Irkhin²,

Нартова-Бочавер

2019

psychology

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Section: Measurement Of Environmental Identitysupporting

confidence: 71%

Section: What Is Environmental Identity?mentioning

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Environmental Identity in Russia: Validation and Relationship to the Concern for People and Plants

Clayton¹,

Irkhin²,

Нартова-Бочавер

2019

psychology

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“…Motivation refers to the reason upon which one acts. The literature distinguishes between intrinsic motives and extrinsic motives (Frey 1998;Weaver, Treviño, and Cochran 1999;Lindenberg 2001;Scopelliti 2018). Business leaders who feature intrinsic motives for improving environmental performance perceive good environmental performance as an end in itself, independent of other (mostly financial) benefits (Muller and Kolk 2010).…”

Section: Motivation and Environmental Performance Of Small Businessesmentioning

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Government regulation, business leaders’ motivations and environmental performance of SMEs

Graafland

Bovenberg

2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This paper investigates whether government regulation crowds out intrinsic motivation to improve environmental performance of small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Motivation crowding is the phenomenon by which external pressures reduce intrinsic motivation. Literature on motivation crowding effects of environmental regulations exhibits two gaps. First, previous studies have focused on households while neglecting business organizations, even though businesses account for a major part of industrial pollution worldwide. Second, previous literature neither measured intrinsic motivation nor tested how government regulation affects this motivation. Empirical evidence of motivation crowding by environmental regulations is therefore still lacking. This paper fills both research gaps. Using a dataset of 2,373 SMEs from 12 European countries, we show that government regulation enhances environmental performance directly but harms it indirectly by crowding out intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of business leaders. It only stimulates environmental performance for companies exhibiting low motivation.

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“…In this regard, the theory of sustainability from a social point of view assumes that poverty alleviation should not lead to unjustified environmental destruction or economic crises. The crucial objective of social sustainability is to limit the poverty of populations (Scopelliti et al, 2018). In Saith's (2006) view, at the social level, sustainability requires promoting human development and cultural identities of societies to help achieve meaningful life, relying on appropriate health care, gender equality education and stability around the world.…”

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The Female Financial Inclusion and the Sustainable Development in MENA Countries

Moussa¹

2020

Preprint

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In this paper we try to examine the effect of Microfinance on the sustainable development in a group of Middle East and North Africa countries (MENA). Can we consider that Microcredits are performing instrument for the sustainable development in MENA countries? To answer this question we chose a period from 1990 to 2018 and a sample of 10 MEN countries was selected. We have approximated sustainable development supported by the endogenous variable corresponds to the net adjustment of sustainable development (GS). Exogenous variables are: Active female borrowers (AFB), Labor Force female (LFF), the female to male labor force ratio, Gender parity index (GPI), GINI Index (GINI) and the GDP deflator. In the empirical analysis, we examined the linear fit of this long-term relationship within an error correction (ECM) model. We founded that 67% of sustainable development imbalance will be corrected by micro-financial institutions as the speed of adjustment brings this imbalance back to a stable state in the long term. Subsequently, we adopted the GMM method to determine the dynamics of sustainable development. Our results showed that participation rate of men in the labor force has a negligible and not significant influence on sustainable development and this can refer to their limit.JEL classification: O16; O57; C38; C33.

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What makes you a ‘hero’ for nature? Socio-psychological profiling of leaders committed to nature and biodiversity protection across seven EU countries

Cited by 53 publications

References 83 publications

Environmental Identity in Russia: Validation and Relationship to the Concern for People and Plants

Environmental Identity in Russia: Validation and Relationship to the Concern for People and Plants

Government regulation, business leaders’ motivations and environmental performance of SMEs

The Female Financial Inclusion and the Sustainable Development in MENA Countries

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